“The Big Short” is a film that manages to make the financial collapse of 2007-08 interesting and occasionally funny, although you will leave the theater angry at Wall Street, the big banks, and the rating companies like Moody’s and Standard and Poor.
The film stars Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, and Brad Pitt, and follows the fortunes of three different financial firms that realized the housing market was a bubble about to burst. The film, based on a book by Michael Lewis by the same name, makes clear that the financial shenanigans were not just an accident or a result of ignorance, but rather the result of fraud.
And how many of the hundreds, if not thousands of people involved in the fraudulent activities went to jail? One.
We saw the film tonight at the Carmike at the Promenade Shops off of I-78. If it doesn’t come to your local theater, rent it.
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